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CARRIEA. XVHITNEY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

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SPEOIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,655, dated October 10,1899.

Application filed February 18, 1898. Serial No. 670,843. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CARRIE A. WHITNEY, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sewing-Needles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvements in ordinary sewing-needles adapted to be used by hand, and is embodied in a needle having a catch formed in the side of the loop forming the eye of the needle and so arranged as to provide a V-shaped slit between the loop and the catch adapted to receive the thread and prevent it from slipping.

The object of my lnvention is to provide a needle which will hold the thread in the eye and not unthread itself when it is being used. My invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an enlarged view of part of a needle embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a part of the needle, taken on the line marked X or of Fig. 1.

A is the body of the needle.

B is the eye.

0 is the loop which surrounds'the eye.

D is a projecting catch formed on the side of the loop by cutting therein the slit E, and is so placed that the thread inthe eye may be easily passed over the catch D and into the slit E and firmly held against slipping there- 'in, the slit E being largest at the entrance and gradually contracting until'the sides of the slit unite. A thread passed into this slit and pulled downward or in the, direction of the closed end thereof will be wedged therein and be prevented from slipping out. The end of the catch D points inwardly, so as to avoid catching on the fabric being sewed as the needle passes through it, and to further protect this end of the catch D from catching on the fabric the main body of the needle forms a protecting-shoulder F immediately above the point D, as shown in the drawings. After the thread is put through the eye Bit is pulled into the upper part of the eye and against the shoulder F. This will cause the thread to pass into the slit E. While in this position by pulling-the thread downward and the needle upward the thread will become wedged in the slit, as before stated, and be firmly held therein. Great inconvenience is experienced in the use of the ordinary needle,

as the thread is constantly slipping along through the eye as it is being used and soon becomes unthreaded, rendering it very annoying, producing as well loss of time thereby. The improvement shown will prevent .the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent isl. The herein-described needle having an eye in the head thereof, and provided with a thread-retaining catch D, integral therewith, formed in the wall or loop 0 forming the eye; the said catch being parallel with the needle; a wedge-shaped slit E intermediate the catch and the loop 0 for receiving and preventing the thread from slipping therein when it is not desired that the thread should run through the eye; and the shoulder F integral with the needle and projecting over the point of the catch D as and for the purpose shown and described.

2. A needle having an eye in the head thereof; a thread-retaining catch D, integral with and adjacent to the eye and being in a plane parallel with the axis of the needle; a V-shaped slit E intermediate the catch and the wall orloop C of the eye, whereby a thread pulled therein will become wedged therein and prevented from slipping; a shoulder F projecting over the point of said catch to protect the point while being used in sewing, substantially as shown and described,

, CARRIE A. WHITNEY.

Witnesses:

HENRY T. HAZARD, M. MoGINNIs. 

